>>doctor walked in to ask "How are you feeling?" and then charged $20,000 for doing so.
It would have happened, why would you doubt it?
It would have been like he was called in just in case any issue came up. The doctor walks in and asks the most obvious question to the patient "How are you feeling?".
The operation ends without needing any inputs from him. But regardless he would have billed the patient for his time.
The attitude is, he wouldn't have given any inputs but he did give them their time, which would otherwise be used else where to make the same money so you have to pay even if the actual value added by him was zero.
It would have happened, why would you doubt it?
It would have been like he was called in just in case any issue came up. The doctor walks in and asks the most obvious question to the patient "How are you feeling?".
The operation ends without needing any inputs from him. But regardless he would have billed the patient for his time.
The attitude is, he wouldn't have given any inputs but he did give them their time, which would otherwise be used else where to make the same money so you have to pay even if the actual value added by him was zero.